clifford_thornton

Where's Chuck with one of his "size" jokes?

Well, since the ultimate point of the thread is to impress everyone with the vastness of your collection, I won! It is a slightly sarcastic comment on the nature of a thread like this. I got it. I'll take my two Heavy Soul Music (label) LPs over any of my BNs any day, however.

Well, I suppose if you counted ALL the flatted fifths...

I'm guessing LPs vs. CDs.

I think I'm at about 125 last time I checked. Kenny Cox - Multidirection is the newest BN addition; I've lately begun to appreciate a lot of the upper 4200s and lower 4300s. For some reason, though it's certainly by no means his best recording, the J.R. Monterose gets under my skin a little bit. I also pull out Blues in Trinity quite often, also True Blue and of course tear into the Jackie McLeans a lot too. I need more Horace Parlan, that is for sure... Apologies, but I'm going to have to include Japanese and '70s pressings, as they fill out the catalog in a way that otherwise I couldn't participate. I do have a lot of NY originals, too, but I'm not as picky about BN pressings as I am about other labels.

I thought about sending one to Savoy once, just to see what would happen...

Runswick's electric bass playing on Rites & Rituals is off the hook. I don't have the Lowther (the Deram?) but intend to get it at some point. His upright graces a number of Ray Russell LPs...

Jeb Bishop/Nick Evans - for some reason I always want to say the latter when I mean the former. I mean, their playing IS similar... The Bards one time confused Kenny Clare and Kenny Clarke, I believe... I remember finding it oddly hilarious.

Toshiba must be up to the current BN levels of QC! Byrd Blows Deacon Hill?

The site looks great so far. Studied with Mangelsdorff, eh? I look forward to hearing your work!

Yeah, South or Central Texas too!

I saw him with Gerry Hemingway and it was like you say... though with Oxley, Lytton, Alan Jackson or any number of more appropriate folks, he's stunning. Daryl Runswick, though his discography is fairly scant, is another wonderful player.

Yup.

"Snowflakes and Sunshine" is cool, for sure. Maybe part of the reason is that Vol. 2 wasn't on CD for quite a while.

Ray Russell - Rites and Rituals (CBS UK original) sick LP, sounds like early Keith Tippett on (more) acid...

Barry Guy I would call a jazz bassist at the outset - those first few Howard Riley records are definitely "jazz" LPs, as are a few of Bob Downes' early dates (on which Guy plays). The Downes obviously "stretch" more than the Rileys. I have not familiarized myself with Peter Ind, though I would like to! Chris Laurence I like on LPs by Alan Skidmore, Harry Beckett and that crew. I can't speak for his more recent work, or his being stuck in a snoozy band!

For me, what it speaks volumes of is the fact that it's hard to "sit in" with a Miles band, or even have a brief stint, especially during these years.

It's obviously harmolodic!

One of these days I'll get a DVD player. Maybe I should get the DVD now anyway. Saw it in theaters and thought it great... was a wee one when the band was actually around, as is the case with so many things. Edit: remembered that I don't even have a television!

Polvo - Exploded Drawing - (Touch & Go coloured vinyl original) Sad to see even rock records like this from a decade ago are going for big bucks on eBay.

That is a good idea. I tried it but ended up cutting off the good parts. Sorry to bring what should be a PM discussion out into the open. Let's resume regular programming...

Thanks, you put it perfectly.

This is a fantastic record. The two-basses-and-drums lineup is off the hook! My dad, who's normally a little leery of the "free" stuff, was blown away by this one, which is a testament in itself (especially if any of you knew my dad). Will get to the NPR article - thanks for posting!

I have Toshiba LPs of Byrd's Eye View and Watkins at Large, and both are wonderful "blowing" sessions. Watkins is particularly sick... I haven't heard Beacon Hill, but suspect it's good. You couldn't go wrong buying this CD, which is pretty much what everybody else here would say.